Hello, and welcome to the Borealis experience. I'm

your host Aurora, life coach and companion on this beautiful

adventure called life.

Hope you are feeling safe, I hope you're feeling hopeful.

I hope you feel good.

If you don't feel good, if you're not in a good place right

now and you're tuned in, then I really hope I can bring you

value I can give you hope I can empower you, I can make you

aware of how precious and unique and beautiful you are, and how

much we need you to shine your light here on planet Earth.

Today, I want to talk about your mind.

And the episode

one, or in season one, I talk about how

everything is affecting our mind, our environment, our

relationships,

our shelter, our clothing, our body,

everything, provides information and nurtures our mind or pulls

our mind into weird directions.

Today, I want to talk about the importance of emptying your

mind.

And this expression comes from

the one and only Bruce Lee. I'm a huge Bruce Lee fan for people

who know me.

You know this about me, but maybe you're just a first time I

hear. And yeah, Bruce Lee, martial artist. And what he left

behind is

a legacy and so many beautiful quotes that

are incredibly nurturing. And they make so much sense and are

so poetic at times. And one of his quotes is Be water my

friend.

And empty your mind at times completely. Empty yourself out.

I want you to notice over the next

couple of days, if not weeks,

how much you consume on a daily basis. And I don't mean food

when I talk about consuming. But what do you stimulate your brain

with? What do you listen to what do you see? Who do you interact

with?

Everything

is being

sucked in through your mind.

And put through filters. You generalize you distort, you

delete, because it's so much information that bombards you,

on a on an hourly basis, we can say even today.

And your brain learns to distinguish what is important

and what not. Sometimes we cut important stuff out.

Because it's new information and it is just too much.

And sometimes we let information in because we think yeah, that's

what we're used to. That's what we think is right that's in

alignment with our values from years ago. And

at the end of the day, it is not serving you 100%. So what I want

to say is that you bring tons of stuff into your mind and some of

the stuff is not really good.

Salsa stuff is really good. But maybe you could make more space

for the good stuff.

So the importance of emptying your mind is what I want to

emphasize today. And we can only reach that when we allow

stillness when we allow nothingness. Right. We are so

caught up and having to do things and conquer projects and

accomplish and achieve and run around and look busy even though

we're not busy, but it's good to be busy because that's what

society wants to see.

And from the early morning hours on from the moment on you wake

up, I want you to observe what is it that you consume first? Do

you look at your phone first

Do you talk to your partner first? To your children?

To your neighbor, to your dog to your cat to any kind of animal,

any kind of pet?

And then where does your mind go?

Imagine yourself laying in bed and just waking up.

Maybe you need an alarm clock, maybe you don't?

What is the first sensation that you feel? Is it? The blanket on

top of you? Is it your pillow?

Do you think about breakfast? Do you think about drinking water?

Do you think about your to do list

that you

have, like ready to

conquer?

Do you think about an argument that you've had not long ago?

You think about your relationships? Do you think

about yourself? Do you see yourself in the mirror? Maybe

when you get up and go to the bathroom?

And then what do you start consuming? Is it the news on

television as a newspaper or is it a podcast.

And what I started doing is that

I take a moment every morning to myself.

I get up I drink water, lots of water, I usually feel dehydrated

in the morning.

And then I go to my little room. I call it my yoga room, my my

little office. And then I spend some time there with myself.

And I wake up, I give myself time to wake up.

And then I usually do a yoga stretch. Sometimes I sit there

and just

meditate or I'm grateful.

But allow I allow this

very sweet stillness.

Maybe everything around you is sleeping stolen and it's dark.

Maybe you want to do that little practice in the evening. Maybe

you are a trained yogi or meditation master.

And this is like old news to you.

But even then I invite you to,

to ask okay, and here just follow a routine. Do you think

you?

Yeah.

Really give yourself a break and stillness?

Or do you think about the perfect position?

The perfect breathing, perfect look.

So to just be there and to observe your thoughts and to

know that you're not your thoughts, you're not what's

going on in your head? What's going on in your head is an

accumulation of stuff that you have consumed not only over a

week, but over the years, over decades, over centuries.

If you are

hundreds

and then you can

notice, okay, what are the thoughts you actually want to

engage in? What is it that you want to drop once and for all?

You see, so often, we run around and we feel exhausted, we feel

tired, we feel irritated, agitated, and we blame it on the

world outside of us.

But all along, we don't see what's going on inside of us.

And we don't realize that if we would take care of what's going

on inside of us, it would also hugely affect

our outside.

Did you ever notice how when you are calm and joyous?

Yes, you still might encounter people that are irritated and

angry and aggressive. But you have an effect on the people

around you. If you keep your cool if you keep your sweetness

and I believe that the secret of the people who can keep their

cool.

They engage in that practice

They empty their mind. They completely detached from

everything for a moment.

And it is really important to do when you have a busy life, let's

look at the mom who raises her children and tries to make her

husband's life as comfortable and joyous as possible.

But even if you're single and you live alone, it is important

because I feel the more we are alone, the more weird thoughts

creep up upon us. With self doubt and

self criticism, old stuff might come up or new, anxious

thoughts, depending how you're wired. I feel when we live with

people together, then.

Yeah, we accumulate stuff inside of us. But we're also kind of

involved with with other people's needs, and

what's important to them. So it's, it's important. What I

mean, yeah, that it's important to,

to practice this, no matter how you lifestyles and how busy you

are, or lonely you are.

And it is going to affect your relationships, it is going to

affect the people around you.

It is going to help you maintain a sense of self.

And I find that so incredibly important, especially when you

are in a relationship. But also when you are single, and you

feel like ah should I

don't really enjoy myself like myself, I need to change.

I need to look at beautiful Instagram pictures and get

inspired and blah, blah, blah, we're trying to, to add on,

because we don't feel enough. But I feel we need to strip

away.

To feel better, we don't need to add on, I think we have

everything inside of ourselves

to be successful in any way we want. We are so resourceful. Yet

we don't see it at times. And when you allow stillness when

you allow

your thoughts to float by, and to really pick and choose which

thoughts are beneficial, which habits which behaviors are going

to get you closer to your dreams and your goals,

then you can make very, very wise decisions for yourself.

I'm still here.

I'm just silent for a moment. Because I want you to

have a taste.

And sometimes doing it with another person.

It's a little bit easier than just starting out by yourself

doesn't have to be long, you can set an alarm for two minutes.

And then you can tell your monkey brain, your monkey mind

sorry

that you're just emptying your mind for a moment.

And then you can get back to where you left off.

And then you can increase the minutes

my body usually eggs for a deep breath. As soon as I start that

little practice my body is like ah, this is the part where I

actually get to breathe deeply. Because all day long I breathe

in a shallow way. And now I can breathe deeply.

So it is not only going to affect your mind and your

relationships but it's gonna hugely impact your body, your

physique as well.

You're gonna become more resilient to the BS out there

and all the stress all the change, you will feel more okay

with yourself

more grounded,

more confident.

You can close your eyes

while you can keep them open. Of course you don't do that while

operating machinery or driving around

and another

The thing that is important to mention why you do that

exercise?

If there is something going on outside of you outside, like

children screaming or people having a conversation or you

know sounds just turn the volume down, just know that the world

is spinning.

Even though you are taking a little break.

Of course, if there is an emergency, then

you act upon it. You know what I mean?

And to notice, if there is sounds, how your mind reacts? Do

you get irritated right away? Do you kind of roll your eyes and

I'm like, fuck, I never get a second to myself.

I said so loud.

Was that just the start the irritation?

It will go away with time.

And you will notice that, yeah, stuff can go out on outside of

you. But it doesn't need to bug you. You could change the story

about it.

If it is children screaming and playing just

think to yourself, yeah, you were a child at some point. So

okay.

They are enjoying themselves. And maybe we can learn to be a

little bit more playful on the future. So instead of getting

irritated with

disruptions,

interruptions, try to

make a beautiful story about it. And know that we're all

connected. We're all together in this.

We all feel the feelings from others.

And this is why it's so important to take a break at

times and to allow silence. To be in stillness.

To be with yourself to stop running away from yourself.

Because you can't escape yourself. Yes, you can distract

yourself you can add and distort and you know be really loud and

active about running away from yourself. But you can never

escape yourself.

So why not set with yourself

and see

what's coming up.

befriend

your inner child,

your inner self.

Thank you so much for sharing some time with me today.

Thank you so much for being there. I appreciate you so much.

take really good care of yourself and I will be out there

very soon again.

Bye bye